October 28, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Continue ReadingPutin accuses Western elites of playing ‘dangerous, bloody and dirty game’
CNN By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a speech on Thursday, accusing “Western elites” of playing a “dangerous, bloody and dirty game” and seeking to blame them for much of the world’s trouble, including his own invasion
Continue ReadingPutin accuses Western elites of playing ‘dangerous, bloody and dirty game’
CNN By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a speech on Thursday, accusing “Western elites” of playing a “dangerous, bloody and dirty game” and seeking to blame them for much of the world’s trouble, including his own invasion
Continue ReadingDutch foreign ministry investigating reports that China set up two purportedly illegal police stations in Netherlands
By Niamh Kennedy and Rosanne Roobeek, CNN The Dutch foreign ministry is “investigating” reports that China has set up two purportedly illegal police stations in the Netherlands. “We are investigating the activities of these so-called police centers,” Ministry for Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maxine Hovenkamp said in a statement to CNN Thursday. Hovenkamp added that the
Continue ReadingPutin accuses Western elites of playing ‘dangerous, bloody and dirty game’
By Uliana Pavlova, Sugam Pokharel and Amy Cassidy, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin took some familiar swipes at the US and its allies during a speech on Thursday, accusing “Western elites” of playing a “dangerous, bloody and dirty game” and seeking to blame them for much of the world’s trouble, including his own invasion of
Continue ReadingStabbing attack in Italy kills one, injures soccer player Pablo Mari
By Valentina Di Donato and Glen Levy, CNN One person has died and four people, including Spanish soccer player Pablo Mari, were “seriously injured” after a stabbing attack on the outskirts of the Italian city of Milan on Thursday, according to Italian national police. The suspected attacker has been arrested, police said. “A mentally unstable
Continue ReadingIran security forces crack down on mourners at Nika Shahkarami ceremony
By Adam Pourahmadi, Mostafa Salem and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Mourners gathering to commemorate the 40th day since the death of Nika Shahkarami, an Iranian teenager who went missing on September 20 after attending protests in the capital Tehran, were met with gunfire and tear gas by security forces, according to video posted on social media
Continue ReadingRussian lawmakers move to toughen ‘gay propaganda’ law, banning all adults from ‘promoting’ same-sex relationships
By Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian lawmakers agreed to toughen the country’s discriminatory law against so-called same-sex “propaganda,” moving to ban all Russians from promoting or “praising” homosexual relationships or publicly suggesting that they are “normal.” Moscow’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved unanimously amendments to strengthen the law against “propaganda
Continue ReadingIsrael and Lebanon finalize Mediterranean border agreement, opening up potentially rich oil and gas fields
By Hadas Gold, Mostafa Salem, Mia Albert, Celine Alkhaldi and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Israel and Lebanon finalized an agreement defining their maritime borders in the Mediterranean on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced on Twitter, inking a United States-brokered deal at the United Nations mission on the land border between the countries. The signing ceremony officially
Continue ReadingTV host Ksenia Sobchak, a Kremlin critic with ties to Putin, flees Russia after apartment search
By Anna Chernova, CNN Russian TV host and 2018 presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak has fled Russia for Lithuania, Russian state news agency TASS reported Thursday. Sobchack entered Lithuania using her Israeli passport, according to the country’s State Security Department director Darius Jauniskis. “Yes, I can confirm that Sobchak is in Lithuania,” TASS cited Jauniskis as
Continue ReadingBelarus opposition leader says CNN report is ‘proof’ Lukashenko regime aided Russian aggression in Ukraine
By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN An opposition leader in exile from Belarus has demanded that President Alexsandr Lukashenko be held to account for his regime’s complicity in the Ukraine war and for Russian soldiers to withdraw from Belarusian soil, after a CNN investigation revealed new evidence that the country provided medical assistance to injured Russian troops.
Continue ReadingClashes in Iran as thousands gather at Mahsa Amini’s grave, 40 days after her death
CNN By Celine Alkhaldi, Adam Pourahmadi and Tara John, CNN Clashes broke out throughout Iran Wednesday as thousands of people came to the burial site of Mahsa Amini in Saqqez, a city in the Kurdistan province, to mark 40 days since her death, semi-official Iranian state news agency ISNA said. Protests have swept through the
Continue ReadingBody of Joshua Jones, American killed in Ukraine, returned to Ukrainian custody
CNN By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military has been returned to Ukrainian custody by the Russian military. A CNN team witnessed the transfer in the Zaporizhzhia region on Wednesday. The American is 24-year-old Joshua Jones,
Continue ReadingBody of Joshua Jones, American killed in Ukraine, returned to Ukrainian custody
CNN By Clarissa Ward, Mick Krever, Scott McWhinnie and Dave Alsup, CNN The body of an American man killed in August while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military has been returned to Ukrainian custody by the Russian military. A CNN team witnessed the transfer in the Zaporizhzhia region on Wednesday. The American is 24-year-old Joshua Jones,
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Continue ReadingWhat really happened to Nika Shahkarami? Witnesses to her final hours cast doubt on Iran’s story
CNN By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A black-clad Iranian girl stands on top of an overturned garbage bin, waving her headscarf as it is engulfed by flames, amid chants of “death to the dictator.” A moment later, video shows, she crouches to collect another scarf, from a friend, which she will
Continue ReadingWhat really happened to Nika Shahkarami? Witnesses to her final hours cast doubt on Iran’s story
By Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN A black-clad Iranian girl stands on top of an overturned garbage bin, waving her headscarf as it is engulfed by flames, amid chants of “death to the dictator.” A moment later, video shows, she crouches to collect another scarf, from a friend, which she will also
Continue Reading15 killed, 40 injured in terrorist attack claimed by ISIS in Iran
By Adam Pourahmadi and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN At least 15 people were killed and 40 others were injured Wednesday in a “terrorist attack” at the Shahcheragh Shrine in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran, according to state-run media and Iranian officials. Two children were among the victims, according to state-run Press TV. Iranian security forces
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